"Other than checking to
see whether Sara HAMMERSTEIN geb. KANTORSOHN happened to name a son
Baer or Bernhard (or Issachar), I will have to wait for more
opportunities to prove this new ancestral link."
Checking the Nightengale Family Tree on Ancestry.com did add another consistent clue to the KANTORSOHN search.
Even though the first time I looked at the list of children of Hirsch Laser HAMMERSTEIN and Sara geb. KANTORSOHN, I specifically did not see a Bernhard or Berel, looking at the same list a few minutes later:
Pauline Hammerstein
Aurelie Hammerstein 1840 –
Moritz Hammerstein 1841 – 1907
Minna Hammerstein 1844 –
Jacob Hammerstein 1845 – 1901
Johanna Hammerstein 1845 –
Bernhard Hammerstein 1849 –
Leopold Hammerstein 1850 –
there clearly was a son Bernhard HAMMERSTEIN.
So, both Rachel KANTORSOHN and Sara KANTORSOHN named sons Bernhard. This is the closest thing to evidence that Rachel and Sara were sisters, and daughters of Baer KANTERSON of Schloß Kyschau.
It might even be noteworthy that Rachel and Sara also named daughters Johanna.
[Written at the Caffe Capanna in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
LAUDON - KANTORSOHN - KANTERSON - A New Ancestor?
On the flight from Philadelphia to Seattle (en route to Point Roberts, WA), I identified a possible new ancestor. He was Baer KANTERSON of Schloß Kyschau in West Prussia (now, Zamek Kiszewski, Poland). He might be my newest great great great great grandfather.
Back in October 2012 a few days after finding out that the wife of Abraham LAUDON of Rosenberg, West Prussia was Rachel (Rahel) KANTORSOHN (CANTORSOHN), I found an entry in the West Prussia 1812 Citizenship Database for a Baer KANTERSON of Schloss Kyschau (Subsidiary List 5; Page #37 (WP)). But there was nothing to link Rachel to Baer.
On 5 January 2013, I reviewed an LDS microfilm of Rosenberg Jewish community births to look for LAUDON family members. The only LAUDON entry was the birth of Alfred Laudon on 13 Aug 1874 to the Kaufmann Bernhard LAUDON and Ottilie geb. FREYMUTH. From the son being named Alfred, this seemed like another possible son of Abraham Laudon and Rachel KANTORSOHN. While flying from Philadelphia to Seattle, I re-noticed my earlier note about the possibility that Rachel’s father might have been Baer KANTERSON of Schloß Kyschau.
Now there were two interlinking theories that could add Bernhard LAUDON and Baer KANTERSON to the tree. First, by location and naming, it seems likely that Bernhard was a son of Abraham LAUDON and Rachel geb. KANTORSOHN, since like his putative siblings Henriette and Johanna, he named a son after his father Abraham; each having an Alfred or Arthur. And, then, assuming that connection to be correct, it could be the case that Rachel named a son Bernhard after her father, who could then be Baer KANTERSON.
Other than checking to see whether Sara HAMMERSTEIN geb. KANTORSOHN happened to name a son Baer or Bernhard (or Issachar), I will have to wait for more opportunities to prove this new ancestral link.
[Written at the Caffe Capanna and at Don's House, and posted from Sylvia's House in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
Back in October 2012 a few days after finding out that the wife of Abraham LAUDON of Rosenberg, West Prussia was Rachel (Rahel) KANTORSOHN (CANTORSOHN), I found an entry in the West Prussia 1812 Citizenship Database for a Baer KANTERSON of Schloss Kyschau (Subsidiary List 5; Page #37 (WP)). But there was nothing to link Rachel to Baer.
On 5 January 2013, I reviewed an LDS microfilm of Rosenberg Jewish community births to look for LAUDON family members. The only LAUDON entry was the birth of Alfred Laudon on 13 Aug 1874 to the Kaufmann Bernhard LAUDON and Ottilie geb. FREYMUTH. From the son being named Alfred, this seemed like another possible son of Abraham Laudon and Rachel KANTORSOHN. While flying from Philadelphia to Seattle, I re-noticed my earlier note about the possibility that Rachel’s father might have been Baer KANTERSON of Schloß Kyschau.
Now there were two interlinking theories that could add Bernhard LAUDON and Baer KANTERSON to the tree. First, by location and naming, it seems likely that Bernhard was a son of Abraham LAUDON and Rachel geb. KANTORSOHN, since like his putative siblings Henriette and Johanna, he named a son after his father Abraham; each having an Alfred or Arthur. And, then, assuming that connection to be correct, it could be the case that Rachel named a son Bernhard after her father, who could then be Baer KANTERSON.
Other than checking to see whether Sara HAMMERSTEIN geb. KANTORSOHN happened to name a son Baer or Bernhard (or Issachar), I will have to wait for more opportunities to prove this new ancestral link.
[Written at the Caffe Capanna and at Don's House, and posted from Sylvia's House in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
LEUBUSCHER Discoveries - II - Part 2
The unintentional part of the LEUBUSCHER discoveries came from reviewing all the LEUBUSCHER "hits", under various spellings and misspellings, in the Ancestry.com databases.
I had seen the 5 listings in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) (via Ancestry.com) of LEUBUSCHERs buried in Vienna, but I had never been able to connect them to my LEUBUSCHER tree. But, this time, adding in details available from the records indexed at GenTeam.at and recently digitized Vienna Jewish community records in the LDS microfilm archive, this strand of the family fell into place. The Todesanzeigen for Salomon LEUBUSCHER and Ernestine LEUBUSCHER geb. BLANZGER also played a role.
From the JOWBR data, the LEUBUSCHERs buried in Vienna were Julius, Johanna, Benno, Karl and Max. I had earlier noted that Julius might have been the same person as Benjamin Julius LEUBUSCHER born on 10 December 1834 to Salomon LEUBUSCHER and Ernestine geb. BLANZGER since the Julius who died in Vienna in 1892 at age 57 would have been born ca.1835.
The digitized pages of the Wiener Sterbregister 1891-1892 (p.127) contained an entry for the 1892 death of Julius LEUBUSCHER:
1477 13 Mai 4 uhr Morg. (yom 6 16 Iyar) 15 Mai 10 Uhr Vorm. Julius Leubuscher ___ Kaufmann aus Brieg in ___ Schlesien gebürtig M. Vereh. 57 J
With the information that Julius was born in Brieg, it became clear that Julius was the same person as Benjamin Julius. From there, I was able to add his wife Johanna geb. WOLFF (1838-1903), and then their daughter Hedwig.
Hedwig LEUBUSCHER seems to have led an interesting life. The Vienna Jewish community birth records, death records, and conversion records, include three children of Hedwig and Joseph Samuel REICH: Elsa (1882), Alfred Karl (1883) and Adeline (1887); then three children with no father given: Max (1895), Karl (1897) and Helene (1899). Hedwig also apparently was married to Joseph LAVALLE who died in Vienna in about 1901. Perhaps he was the father of the children born in the 6 years before that, but that is never apparent from the records.
One of the birth records for Hedwig's children has an extensive note about Hedwig giving her parents' names and her 1863 birth place as Kattowitz. That nicely ties back to the information in the Todesanzeigen for Salomon LEUBUSCHER and Ernestine LEUBUSCHER geb. BLANZGER that one of their children was living in Kattowitz in 1866 and 1869 -- that would be Hedwig's father Julius / Benjamin Julius.
Hedwig came to the US in 1922 as Hedwig LEUBUSCHER-LAVALLE. Her daughter Helene was also referred to by the LEUBUSCHER-LAVALLE at that time; she was her mother's personal secretary. Hedwig was, or had been, an actress. She and her eldest children converted to Christianity in 1900 / 1901. It is not clear whether the later children also converted.
The eldest daughter Elsa married Count Zsigmund TOLDALAGI of Maros-Vasarhely, Romania. She was living in Vienna in 1926. Based on an advertisement in the New York Times, she was living in Paris in 1930 and was involved in "haute couture".
The last (for now) twist in this family is that Hedwig had a granddaughter - but from which child? When Hedwig travelled to the US in 1926, she was listed in the S.S. Berengaria passenger list as being accompanied by a 9-year-old granddaughter Salem LEUBUSCHER SKYUM, born in London. I do not know who Salem's parents were or what became of her.
I almost forgot one of the most satisfying parts of that search. When I first looked at the Vienna birth records on the LDS website, I paged through one year's records after the other without finding anything, while noticing that they were not in chronological order. After a couple days of that, I paid more attention to the indexed information on the GenTeam.at website and realized that the record numbers in the GenTeam data were the document numbers on the birth records -- and that they were in number order. With that information, I could find all the birth records I was looking for.
[Written at the Caffe Capanna in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
I had seen the 5 listings in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) (via Ancestry.com) of LEUBUSCHERs buried in Vienna, but I had never been able to connect them to my LEUBUSCHER tree. But, this time, adding in details available from the records indexed at GenTeam.at and recently digitized Vienna Jewish community records in the LDS microfilm archive, this strand of the family fell into place. The Todesanzeigen for Salomon LEUBUSCHER and Ernestine LEUBUSCHER geb. BLANZGER also played a role.
From the JOWBR data, the LEUBUSCHERs buried in Vienna were Julius, Johanna, Benno, Karl and Max. I had earlier noted that Julius might have been the same person as Benjamin Julius LEUBUSCHER born on 10 December 1834 to Salomon LEUBUSCHER and Ernestine geb. BLANZGER since the Julius who died in Vienna in 1892 at age 57 would have been born ca.1835.
The digitized pages of the Wiener Sterbregister 1891-1892 (p.127) contained an entry for the 1892 death of Julius LEUBUSCHER:
1477 13 Mai 4 uhr Morg. (yom 6 16 Iyar) 15 Mai 10 Uhr Vorm. Julius Leubuscher ___ Kaufmann aus Brieg in ___ Schlesien gebürtig M. Vereh. 57 J
With the information that Julius was born in Brieg, it became clear that Julius was the same person as Benjamin Julius. From there, I was able to add his wife Johanna geb. WOLFF (1838-1903), and then their daughter Hedwig.
Hedwig LEUBUSCHER seems to have led an interesting life. The Vienna Jewish community birth records, death records, and conversion records, include three children of Hedwig and Joseph Samuel REICH: Elsa (1882), Alfred Karl (1883) and Adeline (1887); then three children with no father given: Max (1895), Karl (1897) and Helene (1899). Hedwig also apparently was married to Joseph LAVALLE who died in Vienna in about 1901. Perhaps he was the father of the children born in the 6 years before that, but that is never apparent from the records.
One of the birth records for Hedwig's children has an extensive note about Hedwig giving her parents' names and her 1863 birth place as Kattowitz. That nicely ties back to the information in the Todesanzeigen for Salomon LEUBUSCHER and Ernestine LEUBUSCHER geb. BLANZGER that one of their children was living in Kattowitz in 1866 and 1869 -- that would be Hedwig's father Julius / Benjamin Julius.
Hedwig came to the US in 1922 as Hedwig LEUBUSCHER-LAVALLE. Her daughter Helene was also referred to by the LEUBUSCHER-LAVALLE at that time; she was her mother's personal secretary. Hedwig was, or had been, an actress. She and her eldest children converted to Christianity in 1900 / 1901. It is not clear whether the later children also converted.
The eldest daughter Elsa married Count Zsigmund TOLDALAGI of Maros-Vasarhely, Romania. She was living in Vienna in 1926. Based on an advertisement in the New York Times, she was living in Paris in 1930 and was involved in "haute couture".
The last (for now) twist in this family is that Hedwig had a granddaughter - but from which child? When Hedwig travelled to the US in 1926, she was listed in the S.S. Berengaria passenger list as being accompanied by a 9-year-old granddaughter Salem LEUBUSCHER SKYUM, born in London. I do not know who Salem's parents were or what became of her.
I almost forgot one of the most satisfying parts of that search. When I first looked at the Vienna birth records on the LDS website, I paged through one year's records after the other without finding anything, while noticing that they were not in chronological order. After a couple days of that, I paid more attention to the indexed information on the GenTeam.at website and realized that the record numbers in the GenTeam data were the document numbers on the birth records -- and that they were in number order. With that information, I could find all the birth records I was looking for.
[Written at the Caffe Capanna in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
LEUBUSCHER Discoveries - II
LEUBUSCHER Discoveries - II will also have to be a 2-part blog. The first part was intentional; the second part was a by-product of reviewing LEUBUSCHER records on Ancestry.com.
The starting point for this LEUBUSCHER research also came from documents copied in Berlin in the Archive of the Centrum Judaicum; this time from the Breslau Todesanzeigen. The 2012 "get list" included Salomon LEUBUSCHER who died in 1866 and his wife Ernestine LEUBUSCHER geb. BLANZGER who died in 1869. These documents did not name their surviving children, but indicated that they were survived by 2 sons and 3 daughters living in Breslau, Berlin, Polen (in 1866) / Warschau (in 1869) and Kattowitz. From earlier research, those surviving children were Mathilde, Selma, Ulrike, Benjamin Julius and Mendel. (Jette had died age 12 in 1836, and Dr. Berthold (Berel) LEUBUSCHER had died in Breslau at age 33 in 1860.)
The key piece of new information was the note that one of the children was living in Warsaw in the 1860s. Earlier, piecing together information on the strands of LEUBUSCHERs living in the US (from Ancestry.com databases), I recalled finding information about a Stephen LEUBUSCHER who was born in Warsaw in 1878, according to his 1924 US Passport Application. I had been surprised about a LEUBUSCHER being born in Warsaw. Stephen's father was Max LEUBUSCHER.
This led me back into a LEUBUSCHER family I had explored earlier in May 2011. The family of Max LEUBUSCHER had settled in Milwaukee and later also lived in Chicago. The FindaGrave website had a photograph of Max's gravestone and the information that he was born on 31 January 1836.
Knowing that one of Salomon LEUBUSCHER's sons had been in Warsaw led to the conclusion that the youngest son Mendel LEUBUSCHER must have been that son. Mendel was born in Brieg on 31 January 1837. Birth dates being frequently mis-remembered, particularly in the 19th century and before, it was clear that Mendel was the person known as Max LEUBUSCHER in the US.
Max and his wife Rosa geb. SALZENSTEIN had five children: Ernestine, Berthold, Dora, Stephen and Theodore. Presumably, Ernestine's birth date was also mis-remembered (though not necessarily). She was born 5 December 1868. But as her grandmother's Todesanzeige confirmed, Ernestine died on 25 February 1869. If the granddaughter was named in memory of the grandmother, she might have been born in 1869, rather than 1868, or perhaps she was not originally named "Ernestine".
All of the children except Berthold married, but only Ernestine and Dora had offspring. Ernestine married Leopold BLOCK, and Dora married Max GLASS. Their descendants are still in the Chicago area, and I am working on making contact with living members of these families -- MARCUS, BUCHBINDER, BLOCK, MELSCHER, STEINBERG and GLASS.
[Written at the Caffe Capanna in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
The starting point for this LEUBUSCHER research also came from documents copied in Berlin in the Archive of the Centrum Judaicum; this time from the Breslau Todesanzeigen. The 2012 "get list" included Salomon LEUBUSCHER who died in 1866 and his wife Ernestine LEUBUSCHER geb. BLANZGER who died in 1869. These documents did not name their surviving children, but indicated that they were survived by 2 sons and 3 daughters living in Breslau, Berlin, Polen (in 1866) / Warschau (in 1869) and Kattowitz. From earlier research, those surviving children were Mathilde, Selma, Ulrike, Benjamin Julius and Mendel. (Jette had died age 12 in 1836, and Dr. Berthold (Berel) LEUBUSCHER had died in Breslau at age 33 in 1860.)
The key piece of new information was the note that one of the children was living in Warsaw in the 1860s. Earlier, piecing together information on the strands of LEUBUSCHERs living in the US (from Ancestry.com databases), I recalled finding information about a Stephen LEUBUSCHER who was born in Warsaw in 1878, according to his 1924 US Passport Application. I had been surprised about a LEUBUSCHER being born in Warsaw. Stephen's father was Max LEUBUSCHER.
This led me back into a LEUBUSCHER family I had explored earlier in May 2011. The family of Max LEUBUSCHER had settled in Milwaukee and later also lived in Chicago. The FindaGrave website had a photograph of Max's gravestone and the information that he was born on 31 January 1836.
Knowing that one of Salomon LEUBUSCHER's sons had been in Warsaw led to the conclusion that the youngest son Mendel LEUBUSCHER must have been that son. Mendel was born in Brieg on 31 January 1837. Birth dates being frequently mis-remembered, particularly in the 19th century and before, it was clear that Mendel was the person known as Max LEUBUSCHER in the US.
Max and his wife Rosa geb. SALZENSTEIN had five children: Ernestine, Berthold, Dora, Stephen and Theodore. Presumably, Ernestine's birth date was also mis-remembered (though not necessarily). She was born 5 December 1868. But as her grandmother's Todesanzeige confirmed, Ernestine died on 25 February 1869. If the granddaughter was named in memory of the grandmother, she might have been born in 1869, rather than 1868, or perhaps she was not originally named "Ernestine".
All of the children except Berthold married, but only Ernestine and Dora had offspring. Ernestine married Leopold BLOCK, and Dora married Max GLASS. Their descendants are still in the Chicago area, and I am working on making contact with living members of these families -- MARCUS, BUCHBINDER, BLOCK, MELSCHER, STEINBERG and GLASS.
[Written at the Caffe Capanna in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
LEUBUSCHER Discoveries - I - Part 2
When we last heard from our blogger, he had just discovered the trail of the GOIDEL (GOIDELL) family in the 1920 census. The family of Harry GOIDEL also appeared in the 1930 census with his second wife, children Marvin and Shirley from his first wife Lily geb. LEUBUSCHER, and his daughter Ruth from his second wife Ella.
Thanks to the prominence of Shirley's husband and the foresight of the writers of his obituary (or the helpfulness of the family members who provided the information) to include her maiden name, I was able to find more information about this new family line.
Shirley GOIDEL married Hyman Harry ZARITSKY (1907-2007). His name might already have been changed to ZARET by the time of their marriage in the early 1940s. Shirley's husband was the lyricist Hy ZARET who is most famous for writing "Unchained Melody" -- a song I did not even know I knew until listening to recordings on YouTube (by the Righteous Brothers and by Willie Nelson).
And thanks to other clues in Hy ZARET's obituary, I have learned that his widow is still alive and living in Massachusetts, and have gotten in contact with her son and niece. Through her son, Shirley was able to confirm that her grandmother was born SICHEL, as noted in the Berlin Weissensee documents, and not SIEGEL as indexed in the New York City Brides Index. Shirley recalled meeting her grandmother's ship on a return from Europe; I am guessing the 1928 return, as opposed to the 1923 return after the trip on which Paul died.
These new distant (6th) cousins are double cousins through both the LEUBUSCHER family and the SILBERSTEIN family. Paul LEUBUSCHER's paternal grandparents were Heymann Benjamin LEUBUSCHER (1790-1863) and Nanette (Nuche) SILBERSTEIN (1793-1875). Nanette's father was Aron Joachim SILBERSTEIN (1768-1821) of Brieg who was a son of Chajim SILBERSTEIN haLewi (based on my educated conjecture) and so a brother of my great great great great grandfather Philipp Hillel SILBERSTEIN (1761-1837) who married into the LEUBUSCHER family -- his wife was Amalie LEUBUSCHER (ca.1764-1835). Amalie and Heymann Benjamin LEUBUSCHER were first cousins.
Still no solution to the mystery of the other Paul & Minnie LEUBUSCHER family living on the next block in Lower Manhattan in 1920...
[Written at the Caffe Capanna in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
Thanks to the prominence of Shirley's husband and the foresight of the writers of his obituary (or the helpfulness of the family members who provided the information) to include her maiden name, I was able to find more information about this new family line.
Shirley GOIDEL married Hyman Harry ZARITSKY (1907-2007). His name might already have been changed to ZARET by the time of their marriage in the early 1940s. Shirley's husband was the lyricist Hy ZARET who is most famous for writing "Unchained Melody" -- a song I did not even know I knew until listening to recordings on YouTube (by the Righteous Brothers and by Willie Nelson).
And thanks to other clues in Hy ZARET's obituary, I have learned that his widow is still alive and living in Massachusetts, and have gotten in contact with her son and niece. Through her son, Shirley was able to confirm that her grandmother was born SICHEL, as noted in the Berlin Weissensee documents, and not SIEGEL as indexed in the New York City Brides Index. Shirley recalled meeting her grandmother's ship on a return from Europe; I am guessing the 1928 return, as opposed to the 1923 return after the trip on which Paul died.
These new distant (6th) cousins are double cousins through both the LEUBUSCHER family and the SILBERSTEIN family. Paul LEUBUSCHER's paternal grandparents were Heymann Benjamin LEUBUSCHER (1790-1863) and Nanette (Nuche) SILBERSTEIN (1793-1875). Nanette's father was Aron Joachim SILBERSTEIN (1768-1821) of Brieg who was a son of Chajim SILBERSTEIN haLewi (based on my educated conjecture) and so a brother of my great great great great grandfather Philipp Hillel SILBERSTEIN (1761-1837) who married into the LEUBUSCHER family -- his wife was Amalie LEUBUSCHER (ca.1764-1835). Amalie and Heymann Benjamin LEUBUSCHER were first cousins.
Still no solution to the mystery of the other Paul & Minnie LEUBUSCHER family living on the next block in Lower Manhattan in 1920...
[Written at the Caffe Capanna in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]
Sunday, January 6, 2013
LEUBUSCHER Discoveries - I
The last two weeks have been very productive putting together pieces of the LEUBUSCHER puzzle. Three loose strands of LEUBUSCHER have now been connected to the tree.
The latest starting point for LEUBUSCHER research came from Weissensee Friedhof burial documents copied in Berlin in the Archive of the Centrum Judaicum. Just because they were there (and we were there), Don and I copied 8 of the LEUBUSCHER entries (which actually included 2 from burials in the older Schönhauser Allee cemetery in Berlin). Among them were documents concerning Fanny LEUBUSCHER geb. EHRLICH, and Paul LEUBUSCHER.
The information about Fanny confirmed that the wife of Sigismund LEUBUSCHER (buried in Breslau) was the same person as Fanny, the daughter of Salomon EHRLICH and Charlotte SCHLESINGER, who was born in Brieg on 31 Mar 1825. Her children in 1903, 6 of them, were listed as Rosalie, Tekla, Fritz, Kurt, Hedwig and Valesca. (In 1881 when her husband Sigismund died, he left 8 children, 5 adults (born before 1863) and 3 minors (born after 1863) (I assume).)
Although it seems odd, I suspect that the listed children were just the local children -- and that there were 2 sons who had emigrated to the States who were still alive in 1903, but were not listed on Fanny's Bescheinigung. One that still needs further clues is the son Carl LEUBUSCHER who was born in Myslowitz on 23 July 1849. He seems to be the same person as Charles LEUBUSCHER (b.22 July 1851, Kattowitz) who emigrated to New York on the S.S. Cimbria in December 1867, married Mary COLEMANN in Chicago in about 1883, and had the sons Paul (1884-1917) and Ernest (1885-1983), but I am still looking for more confirmation that Carl and Charles were one and the same.
The other son appears to have been Paul LEUBUSCHER, who was born on 16 October 1862 in Kattowitz. Information on Paul appeared among LEUBUSCHER burial cards from the Weissensee cemetery in Berlin. He and his wife Minnie were visiting family in Berlin in 1923 when he suddenly died. His address was listed as "Bambergerstr. 5 bei Schwester Leubuscher". From the Berliner Adresbücher (online), I learned that Valesca LEUBUSCHER and her sister Hedwig HEYMANN geb. LEUBUSCHER, and probably their sister Tekla SANDHEIM geb. LEUBUSCHER, lived at that address. That, together with the fact that those sisters were also born in Kattowitz, seems to confirm that Paul is the formerly unknown child of Sigismund LEUBUSCHER and Fanny LEUBUSCHER geb. EHRLICH -- even though he would have been very much alive in 1903 when his mother died.
(The same issue pertains to Carl / Charles who seems to have died in New York City in 1911, even though his existence was also not noted in the documents when Fanny died in 1903.)
But back to Paul... After learning from the Berlin records about Paul's existence, that he lived in New York, and that his wife was named Minnie, he was easy to find in US Census records -- even though the LEUBUSCHER name is a routinely misread and mis-indexed name (as LENBUSCHER, LENBUSHER, LEUBUSHER, LENBURSCHER, etc.).
I am pretty sure that it was this Paul LEUBUSCHER who married Minnie SIEGEL in New York in 1886 and had the daughter Lilian (Lily) in 1888 and Ruth in 1894, and two other children before 1900 and one more before 1910. Those other children may have been Jennetta (ca.1889-1894), Joseph (1891-1893) and Fred (1906-ca.1908). Paul, of course, died on the trip to Berlin in 1923. Minnie should be the Minnie LEUBUSCHER who died in New York in 1931. (I will know for sure when I receive a copy of her death certificate.)
The only reason for any uncertainty is a surprise finding in the 1920 US Census. Paul (57) and Minnie (56), with no children in the household (since Lilly got married in 1911 to Harry GOIDELL (not GOIDELT), were living in Manhattan at 324 East 4th Street. But, it turns out that another Paul LEUBUSCHER (56) with a wife named Minnie (57), and children John (26), Max (21) and Bona (17), were living around the corner at 325 East 3rd Street. I have not been able to determine who that other family is; it seems an amazing coincidence.
But, interestingly for the story-telling, in the process of reviewing the details on the 1920 census pages to write this note, I just found the family of Lilly and Harry GOIDELL -- without Lilly, unfortunately. Listed just before Paul and Minnie, in the same building on East 4th Street, was the family of Harry GOIDELL (37), widower, his son Marvin (6) and his daughter Shirley (1 8/12 (on 22 Jan 1920)).
Before I write Part II of the "Leubuscher Discoveries", I will have to see if I learn more about my new 5th cousins once removed Marvin and Shirley.
The latest starting point for LEUBUSCHER research came from Weissensee Friedhof burial documents copied in Berlin in the Archive of the Centrum Judaicum. Just because they were there (and we were there), Don and I copied 8 of the LEUBUSCHER entries (which actually included 2 from burials in the older Schönhauser Allee cemetery in Berlin). Among them were documents concerning Fanny LEUBUSCHER geb. EHRLICH, and Paul LEUBUSCHER.
The information about Fanny confirmed that the wife of Sigismund LEUBUSCHER (buried in Breslau) was the same person as Fanny, the daughter of Salomon EHRLICH and Charlotte SCHLESINGER, who was born in Brieg on 31 Mar 1825. Her children in 1903, 6 of them, were listed as Rosalie, Tekla, Fritz, Kurt, Hedwig and Valesca. (In 1881 when her husband Sigismund died, he left 8 children, 5 adults (born before 1863) and 3 minors (born after 1863) (I assume).)
Although it seems odd, I suspect that the listed children were just the local children -- and that there were 2 sons who had emigrated to the States who were still alive in 1903, but were not listed on Fanny's Bescheinigung. One that still needs further clues is the son Carl LEUBUSCHER who was born in Myslowitz on 23 July 1849. He seems to be the same person as Charles LEUBUSCHER (b.22 July 1851, Kattowitz) who emigrated to New York on the S.S. Cimbria in December 1867, married Mary COLEMANN in Chicago in about 1883, and had the sons Paul (1884-1917) and Ernest (1885-1983), but I am still looking for more confirmation that Carl and Charles were one and the same.
The other son appears to have been Paul LEUBUSCHER, who was born on 16 October 1862 in Kattowitz. Information on Paul appeared among LEUBUSCHER burial cards from the Weissensee cemetery in Berlin. He and his wife Minnie were visiting family in Berlin in 1923 when he suddenly died. His address was listed as "Bambergerstr. 5 bei Schwester Leubuscher". From the Berliner Adresbücher (online), I learned that Valesca LEUBUSCHER and her sister Hedwig HEYMANN geb. LEUBUSCHER, and probably their sister Tekla SANDHEIM geb. LEUBUSCHER, lived at that address. That, together with the fact that those sisters were also born in Kattowitz, seems to confirm that Paul is the formerly unknown child of Sigismund LEUBUSCHER and Fanny LEUBUSCHER geb. EHRLICH -- even though he would have been very much alive in 1903 when his mother died.
(The same issue pertains to Carl / Charles who seems to have died in New York City in 1911, even though his existence was also not noted in the documents when Fanny died in 1903.)
But back to Paul... After learning from the Berlin records about Paul's existence, that he lived in New York, and that his wife was named Minnie, he was easy to find in US Census records -- even though the LEUBUSCHER name is a routinely misread and mis-indexed name (as LENBUSCHER, LENBUSHER, LEUBUSHER, LENBURSCHER, etc.).
I am pretty sure that it was this Paul LEUBUSCHER who married Minnie SIEGEL in New York in 1886 and had the daughter Lilian (Lily) in 1888 and Ruth in 1894, and two other children before 1900 and one more before 1910. Those other children may have been Jennetta (ca.1889-1894), Joseph (1891-1893) and Fred (1906-ca.1908). Paul, of course, died on the trip to Berlin in 1923. Minnie should be the Minnie LEUBUSCHER who died in New York in 1931. (I will know for sure when I receive a copy of her death certificate.)
The only reason for any uncertainty is a surprise finding in the 1920 US Census. Paul (57) and Minnie (56), with no children in the household (since Lilly got married in 1911 to Harry GOIDELL (not GOIDELT), were living in Manhattan at 324 East 4th Street. But, it turns out that another Paul LEUBUSCHER (56) with a wife named Minnie (57), and children John (26), Max (21) and Bona (17), were living around the corner at 325 East 3rd Street. I have not been able to determine who that other family is; it seems an amazing coincidence.
But, interestingly for the story-telling, in the process of reviewing the details on the 1920 census pages to write this note, I just found the family of Lilly and Harry GOIDELL -- without Lilly, unfortunately. Listed just before Paul and Minnie, in the same building on East 4th Street, was the family of Harry GOIDELL (37), widower, his son Marvin (6) and his daughter Shirley (1 8/12 (on 22 Jan 1920)).
Before I write Part II of the "Leubuscher Discoveries", I will have to see if I learn more about my new 5th cousins once removed Marvin and Shirley.
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